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Tamaaro Sadaaye hasto chehro, sukh dukh maan kareli vaato bhulati nathi.
Sau pratye karuna bhav darshaavnaar, khumari thi jivan jivnaar,
evaa sadguno thi sabhar aapnu divya atma jyan hoye tyan param shanti ne paame,
evij prabhu ne prarthana saha aapna prati nat mastake Shraddhanjali.
Aapna Baalako,
Jaya Jayanti.
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Today is baiya’s first punyatithi, and I just wanted to wish her soul love and peace and ask everyone to take some time to remember her and her life with us.
PS – Thanks to Avi for the beautiful collage.
Happy Anniversary Dhenu & Mitesh!! I remember the summer you got married I had just graduated from college. Since then you both have been holding down the fort strong in Illinois for me 
Have a wonderful day and wish you lots of love and happiness ahead…hope to see you soon!
Love,
Nimit
Hi all, please vote on a name for Baia’s book below. The names are in randomized order, and you many select up to three names. Please vote ASAP, we’d like to get the name finalized by Sunday night.
Thanks
Hey everyone, it was great seeing everyone this weekend and dancing up a storm in honor of Vivek and Tania. I’ve posted the pictures and videos from my camera. I have a video of some of the dances (though it wasn’t me taking the video except for the very first Vivek/Chin dance).
All Videos and Pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nimit.maru/20100403VivekTaniaSangeet
Videos:
- http://picasaweb.google.com/nimit.maru/20100403VivekTaniaSangeet#5456718236421834562
- http://picasaweb.google.com/nimit.maru/20100403VivekTaniaSangeet#5456723404405785442
- http://picasaweb.google.com/nimit.maru/20100403VivekTaniaSangeet#5456724005178647730
- http://picasaweb.google.com/nimit.maru/20100403VivekTaniaSangeet#5456724924457145314
Enjoy!!
Check out this Kutchi dictionary/grammar guide. It is still quite small in total size, but interesting: http://www.kutchilanguageonline.co.cc/webpages/home/home.html
It seems like this was made by someone who speaks a different, gujarati influenced, dialect of kutchi. Look at this word they have, where they use “pachi” to mean after, rather than “pothiya” like how we would say it:
http://www.kutchilanguageonline.co.cc/webpages/kutchitoenglish/P/pachi.html
Got this from a link shared by Paras on Facebook. Beautifully done…Enjoy
This is a great list and I know some of you are Oprah fans, so thought you would enjoy! The article is available here.
The Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure
by Oprah Winfrey
Since the day the late Gene Siskel asked me, “What do you know for sure?” and I got all flustered and started stuttering and couldn’t come up with an answer, I’ve never stopped asking myself that question. And every month I must find yet another answer. Some months I feel I hardly know a thing, and I’m always pressed to make the deadline for this column. This time around, in honor of our tribute to the subject, I looked back and came up with my all-time top 20:
1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)
2. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)
5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)
8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.
12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.
13. Let passion drive your profession.
14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
15. Love doesn’t hurt. It feels really good.
16. Every day brings a chance to start over.
17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.
18. Doubt means don’t. Don’t move. Don’t answer. Don’t rush forward.
19. When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
20. “Trouble don’t last always.” (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)
Nimit
Interesting BBC report about haldi’s positive effects on cancer cells. I guess the moms were right all along about the hydher jo doodh 
I found a nice article to send to friends explaining the essence of Paryushan.
http://pluralism.org/resources/tradition/essays/jain4.php
One question I had from this is where they mention, “They add to their normal vegetarian restrictions by avoiding such foods as potatoes, onions, and garlic–the eating of which entail killing the plant instead of just taking its fruit.”
Is that accurate? That seems like an important distinction which makes sense to me, to avoid foods which involve killing the plant rather than taking its fruit. I was always told to avoid kann-mood because there is more “life” in the roots. Thoughts?
Here is a comprehensive look into whether our body is designed to be vegetarian. I found it a very educational/interesting read.
http://www.vegsource.com/veg_faq/comparative.htm
If you don’t want to read the whole article, the summary is: Yes, humans are designed to be herbivores (vegetarians). Scroll all the way down in the article to see charts where our body parts are compared to the same body parts of carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and humans. ~95% of our physical features match with those of herbivores!
Nimit
